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U+56DA, 囚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56DA

[U+56D9]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+56DB]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 31 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田人 (WO), four-corner 60800, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 216, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4680
  • Dae Jaweon: page 439, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 710, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+56DA

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔslu, *lju
*lju
*lju
*lju

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (box, enclosure) +  (person) – an enclosed person: confinement, prisoner.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰiou³⁵/
/t͡ɕʰiou⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰiou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰiou⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰiou⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡sʰiou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /siou⁴²/
Xi'an /ɕiou²⁴/
Xining /ɕiɯ²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰiəu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɕiou⁵³/
/t͡ɕʰiou⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰiɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰiəu²¹³/
Chengdu /ɕiəu³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰiəu²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiəu³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰiəɯ²⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰiɯ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕiəu¹¹/
Pingyao /ɕiəu¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰiəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /d͡ʑiɤ²³/
Suzhou /zɤ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiø²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑɤu³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡siəu¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡ziəɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /siu¹¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siu³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰieu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰiu²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /siu³¹/
/sɔu³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (17)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/zɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ziu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ziəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zuw/
Li
Rong
/ziu/
Wang
Li
/zĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qiú
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*sə.lu/
English prisoner

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 10554
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lju/

Definitions

  1. prisoner, convict
  2. to confine, to imprison

Compounds

  • 俘囚
  • 劫囚
  • 南冠楚囚
  • 囚徒 (qiútú)
  • 囚攮的
  • 囚牢
  • 囚犯 (qiúfàn)
  • 囚禁 (qiújìn)
  • 囚籠囚笼 (qiúlóng)
  • 囚糧囚粮
  • 囚繫囚系
  • 囚衣
  • 囚車囚车
  • 囚錮鋒囚锢锋
  • 囚首喪面囚首丧面
  • 囚首垢面
  • 報官囚报官囚
  • 審囚刷卷审囚刷卷
  • 幽囚
  • 幽囚受辱
  • 抱官囚
  • 楚囚
  • 楚囚對泣楚囚对泣
  • 楚囚相對楚囚相对
  • 死囚
  • 死囚牢
  • 縱囚纵囚
  • 繫囚系囚
  • 纍囚累囚
  • 被囚
  • 詩囚诗囚
  • 重囚
  • 錄囚录囚
  • 階下囚阶下囚

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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